Qol on Kailas Venkitasubramanian

Releasing v1.0 of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Quality of Life Explorer Data Pipeline

Thu, 16 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

A successful wrap

It’s a great day today.

We completed the version 1.0 of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Quality of Life Explorer automation project. It’s hard to put in words how exciting and rewarding this feels but I’ll try anyways.

We managed to automate most of the data and computational processes needed to generate the 80-odd quality of life indicators featured in the explorer and create functional data pipelines to serve the application. Through this work, we’ve accomplished a significant reduction of our project workload and fundamentally transformed the nature of our engagement in this project. The completion of this work also revitalizes our team’s vision to building a reproducible data science framework at the Urban Institute and a unified data ecosystem. Let me tell you how all this worked out.

QoL Data Pipeline Automation

Tue, 13 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Making pipelines to the quality of life explorer seamless

Making Data Pipelines for the Quality of Life Explorer seamless

Sun, 13 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

The idea of building a full-fledged data and computational infrastructure to support the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Quality of Life (QoL) Explorer didn’t start with an explicit demand for it. Rather, we were grappling with a deliverables backlog that had accumulated during the Covid-19 pandemic and needed to make up ground to keep the explorer up-to-date and meet deadlines.